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By Jeania Kimbrough

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After a year spent studying abroad in Australia, American teenager Kara Jagger returns home to complete her senior year of high school. She struggles to reconnect with friends and her ex-boyfriend as well as to understand her relationship with a young man she dated while abroad.

By Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

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In SECOND HELPINGS AT THE SERVE YOU RIGHT CAFE, two people are brought together by their love of morning coffee and sugary pastries but just as they start getting to know each other, their dark pasts and unexpected secrets threaten to unravel their burgeoning relationship.

By Praveen Asthana

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Genevieve Nightcloud, shopgirl at the Hollywood Clothing Store, believes in a theory of transference: “that clothing might carry something of the spirit of the owner” and that when old clothes are worn by new people, the chi of the original owner is transferred onto the new wearer.

By Paul Janson

By K. Scott Lewis

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What happens when a God-king dies? This is the question LIGHTFALL seeks to answer. Set a millennium after the prequel, Myth and Incarnation, LIGHTFALL introduces both a new cast of dynamic characters and a new species of being to Lewis’s already intricate world.

By Welcome Cole

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THE BURDEN OF MEMORY, the second book in the Blood Caeyl Memories series, finds various different characters on various quests, with Beam on a sort of astral plane receiving “memories” from the distant past, and his ally/frenemy Mawby having to let go of his prejudices to work with a giant named Wenzil.

By Jeffry R. Halverson

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Phoenix journalist Tyler Anderson is disenchanted with his job, his city, and his life. He begs his editor to let him cover a story outside the city, hoping that some time away from the concrete and metal will allow him to clear his head. A mysterious mural has appeared overnight in the tiny town of Ketchum, and Tyler decides this story will be his big break.

By Andrés Aloi

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BLACK WOLF by Andrés Aloi is a tale of a young man named Vincent Wing, which begins with a prologue explaining that the story is an autobiography about him when he was in high school. He’s now twenty years old and wonders if anything truly has changed or changed him since then.

By Richard Bard

By Jeffrey Allen Mays

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The abduction of a little girl kick starts a noir-infused ride through a city ruled by villains. Before the tale’s completion, an impotent hero, a single mother, a Harley-riding loner, and a rundown detective will all face demons inside and out.

By Mike Gullickson

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Picking up about a decade from author Mike Gullickson’s first NORTHERN STAR book, THE CIVIL WAR takes place in a bleak future where the whole Middle East is occupied territory, the biggest corporation on Earth makes a mind-link VR-type internet, and the U.S. military’s most advanced weapon is cyborg super-soldiers.

By Scott N. Giarman

By Ifè Oshun

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HEART TO HEART features the return of a smart, savvy, and talented heroine on a very original journey of self-discovery but the story loses momentum due to the ease at which she deals with the multitude of problems in her life.

By H.W. Cumming

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Horace, George and Ingle are three brothers poised on the edge of adulthood. They are also princes. When a storm causes some unusual damage, the brothers – along with another young prince named Roland – must investigate this potential threat to the kingdom.

By Jim Murray

By Clare Price

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Toby Eastman, a Vietnam veteran and computer programmer-gone-rogue, witnesses a friend being burned alive by drug runners in the Colombian jungle. Fast-forward to Silicon Valley, California, where Toby sets off on a crime spree. Peter Ellis, an ambitious reporter for the small-time Valley Tribune, is assigned to cover the story. Getting to the bottom of the story would be huge for Peter’s career.

By Anoop Ahuja Judge

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In her late thirties, Divya Kapoor runs into one of her successful friends, Priya. Priya promptly draws a reluctant Divya back into the quartet that formed when the girls were sophomores. The four women share and, at times, hide their troubles and joys after beginning a weekly rummy night.

By Brian Duncan

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LAKE OF SLAVES is a thoroughly researched historical novel featuring both real and fictional characters centered around a group of British settlers opposed to the slave trade in the 1880s Lake Nyasa region of Africa.

By K.R. Conway

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Playful Sexual tension, romance, jealous cheerleaders who steal your clothes while you’re showering in the gym–these are the tropes of the Young Adult fiction genre. UNDERTOW adds an additional layer of intrigue and complication by making the majority of the principal characters confront their supernatural heritage.

By Brandon Zenner

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Benjamin Walker is a dreamer, a very unique dreamer. For most people dreams are transient, occurring during sleep and rarely remembered after awakening. Ben Walker remembers his dreams in meticulous detail long after rising.

By Brian Schwarz

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A society much like our own is split 80/20 between those who have “O-Chips” (Organic Chips) installed in their bodies and the resistance, a group called N.O.W. (No O-Chip World) led by a fierce woman named Claire.

By St John Karp

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Author St John Karp’s RADIUM BABY is the kind of zany little romp that you’re either on board with, or not. It takes place in 1927, a time when autogyros were all the rage, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was still a thing, and radioactivity was not yet known to be extremely harmful.

By Lola Smirnova

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Hand-cuffed, ball-gagged and wearing nothing but a motorcycle helmet – not your typical introduction, but it’s how readers first meet Julia, a young Ukrainian woman whose ambitions for a better life land her in an illogical place: the seedy world of the sex trade industry.

By Carlos Perez

By Hannah Parry

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Isabella Rockwell has lived her entire life in British Empire-era India, learning shooting and riding from her father and herbalism from her father’s housekeeper, Abhaya (also the only mother-figure she remembers). When her father goes missing, and Abhaya dies, Isabella is shipped back to Britain to find a post as a servant.

By Harvey Smith

By Timothy L. Huffman

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SNAKEBITE REMEDY is a collection of eleven short stories, ten poems and one play. The author Timothy L. Huffman subtitles this volume “short works sharp teeth.” Indeed, the stronger stories are both short and sharp.

By Georganne Spruce

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In her intimate memoir, AWAKENING TO THE DANCE, author Georganne Spruce’s journey will resonate deeply with women who are conflicted between their innate need to be independent, and society’s antiquated belief that one cannot have a fulfilling career and a successful family life at the same time.

By Boni Lonnsburry

By Anne-Rae Vasquez

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In this first installment, we meet Harry Doub; a brilliant computer gaming genius who lives a complicated life within a futuristic world. After burying his father, Harry discovers a legacy of secrets that could have a profound effect on the safety of his family.

By Kate Maddison

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Charlotte Sycamore, 16-year-old inventor and sleuth-in-training, has returned to the pages in THE INCREDIBLE CHARLOTTE SYCAMORE AND THE SECRET TRAPS, Kate Maddison’s steampunk vision of Victorian England.

By Chas Watkins

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A journalist is sent to interview a mysterious man with interesting ideas about the brain, its functions,and how to take advantage of its capabilities and limitations to work positive change in one’s life.

By J.A. Carter-Winward

By J.C. Loen

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Crazy Cat, also known as Lee, also known as Lily, is one of the toughest and baddest outlaws around. Unfortunately, at this current stop, she finds that the marshal already recognizes her. But she has one thing on her side: he’s a crooked marshal, brutal and violent and extremely hated by the townsfolk.

By Laura Bragstad

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After the funeral of her “Dad,” adopted Ann is freshly motivated to seek out the history of her biological parents, a task she undertakes by traveling to Newland, Wisconsin, where her Austrian biological mother originally emigrated after World War II.

By Laurel Bragstad

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After the funeral of her “Dad,” adopted Ann is freshly motivated to seek out the history of her biological parents, a task she undertakes by traveling to Newland, Wisconsin, where her Austrian biological mother originally emigrated after World War II.

By Katherine Boyer, M.A.

By Aaron Dennis

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In another world lies the accursed island of Volgunther, originally inhabited by a people called the Cayne who unleashed an immortal daemon and gained immense power. Though the civilization disappeared and the daemon sealed deep underground. Dysart, a descendant of Cayneians, has returned to defeat the Daemon once and for all.

By Denise L. Buchanan

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As a high school girl in Jamaica, Denise L. Buchanan was seduced by a Catholic priest, who subsequently impregnated her against her will and then paid for her abortion. Thirty years later, her struggle to come to terms with her anger, despair, and series of broken personal relationships motivates her to fly back to Jamaica from Los Angeles and confront her abuser.

By Stu Jones

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INTO THE DARK OF DAY takes place after “Day 40” of a world war that nearly destroys humankind. In this chaos, a group of men and women take refuge in a radio station where they transmit, seemingly in vain, trying to reach anyone else who may have survived.

By Jim McFarlane

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The concept behind Jim McFarlane’s PENELOPE: A NOVEL OF NEW AMSTERDAM is a good one: a noir set in Colonial-era America. Its protagonist is Penelope Kent , an English woman living in Holland and who has just married an Anabaptist, though she is of Separatist upbringing.

By Dionne Kasian-Lew

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THE SOCIAL EXECUTIVE is essentially a vigorous presentation, in short book form, aimed at convincing executives that they need to take advantage of social media opportunities now, or be reduced to irrelevancy.

By Russell Mardell

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In Russell Mardell’s BLEEKER HILL, the United Kingdom has dissolved into a world of chaos and disorder. This is the world that Sullivan, the last remaining convict languishing in jail, is thrust into when he is forced to join a small group of Party members on the run from roving gangs that have overrun the […]

By Dee Kelly, Jr.

By Pamela Samuels Young

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ANYBODY’S DAUGHTER, the story of a teenage girl’s abduction into a forced ring of prostitution in Los Angeles, starts off in high gear and manages to create a believable, if occasionally message-heavy, story.

By Laurelin Paige

By Morgan Parker

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When recently separated, self-involved, and self-published online author, Morgan receives a fan letter about his top-selling ebook “Sextual Encounters,” from Emma, he begins a journey of romantic discovery that will take him through marriage counseling, the grueling reality of group author events, and innumerable text messages.

By Powers Molinar

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Ty Mitchell is an intelligent kid, but his imagination often gets away from him. So, when he wakes up in the middle of the night to flashing lights and a brain rattling sound coming from his ’s “‘A’ Room” in the basement, he’s sure it’s a dream. There is only one problem. He isn’t waking up.

By Ashley Fontainne

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Karmen Moncrille bestselling writing career took off when she was quite young. Now, on the brink of turning 23, she is enjoying the lavish life of a successful author. But, Karmen has a secret. She sees famous dead people. And these encounters are the reason for her fortuitous career.

By Marilyn Vix

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Apparently, betrayal and romance are painful in every dimension, not just the mortal one. When the witch Catherine comes home to find her warlock husband Rich in bed with her best friend, she blasts him in a supernatural fury into the pool and decides to get out of town.

By Ryan Winfield

By Daniel C. Davis

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Like so many of us, Daniel C. Davis wants to find happiness, direction and inner peace. Numerous life events lead to a series of epiphanies that prove that the happiness you seek comes from only one source – within yourself.

By Penelope Douglas

By Jay Antani

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After graduating from high school, teenager Vikram moves to India with his mother, father, and younger brother to enroll in college. Aside from hamburgers, a less bribe-heavy culture and his Wisconsin girlfriend, Vikram mainly misses what he could have been.

By Deborah Rix

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For Jessica Grant, life within the exceptionally harsh military training program headed by the Devotees is brutal, but at least it provides her with a means to escape her disapproving mother, who has always suspected that Jessica is a Deviant.

By J. T. Riggen

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Mark Kennedy has been in jail for the past ten years. However, one day he is released into the custody of the FBI on condition that he assist them with a project. He agrees, and finds himself working as a security manager for a casino called the Uptown, the center of organized crime in Vermont.

By Richard Long

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THE BOOK OF PAUL is a strange medley of mythology, religious prophecy, and modern-day torture porn, told with a faint sneer. Martin falls in lust/love with Rose, a young professional piercer who is as ornamented with nipple rings as her clientele. The problem: Martin’s “father” Paul is a sadist, a torturer, and hell-bent on finding a new human vessel in which he can reincarnate.

By R.S. Vern

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THE UNCONVENTIONAL LIFE OF HAEE is the story of a cat that leaves a comfortable home in search of adventure and finds companionship with other cats. The cats humorously impersonate feelings of wanderlust, unconventionality, and stubbornness

By James Snyder

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All three parts of James Snyder’s AMERICAN WARRIOR are prison studies, with sprinklings of home life, sex, accidental drunken gunshot suicides, fight training, airborne escapes within ice-filled caskets, and ultimately, the awakening of protagonist, Paul’s soul.

By Rhoda Canter

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THE ADVENTURES OF STARFOOT AND BROWN is a tale of two Chihuahuas, Bennett (alias Chief Inspector Detective Brown) and Lola (alias Sergeant Detective Starfoot). Bennett is the alpha dog and the brains of the pair, while Lola is a lovable food-obsessed airhead.

By Richard Lori

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THE PARALLEL CONSPIRACY begins with the murder of a physicist who has been working on a project designed to import large quantities of energy from parallel universes. His daughter Sue is devastated by her loss. Another lonely individual from another universe, John Fuller, a programmer and begins to help her solve the mystery of what happened to her father and why.

By Karen Alpert

By Tim Pratt and Andy Deemer

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Jake was not having a good summer. His friends left him to go on vacation or to camp and he was alone in the neighborhood. He spent his time playing “secret agent”. Without warning, he is approached by two kids who claim to be real spies and they recruit him for a mission to save the world.

By Harambee K. Grey-Sun

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Robert is a black student/wrestler in a mostly white high school in Virginia. The President has been murdered by the First Lady and Heartland Security has been created as part of sweeping laws that include stricter gun control.

By Tijan

By Ifè Oshun

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Angel Brown is not your typical teenager. She’s mature for her age and solely focused on her promising music care – so much so that she’s willing to face her mother’s wrath and drop out of high school in order to pursue it full time.

By Jill Sayre

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Precocious Claire Collins misses her deployed brother and isn’t too thrilled to have her long-lost grandmother return instead, a grandmother who’d missed most of her life to stay in England and whom she suspects is senile. Her grandmother acts and talks as if fairies are real.

By Nathaniel Sewell

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Edward Tiberius Wilcox was average in almost every way that one could perceive. Yet to Professor Quan, a hermitic scientist living in the depths of an Appalachian cave, the circumstances of Edward’s birth set him apart. Though theses two have never met directly they must battle the ultimate evil, Ms. Proserpina, a genetic mutant and creation of one of Professor Quan’s misguided experiments.

By C.A. Bodiford

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Emma Sloan is incredibly beautiful, incredibly gifted, and incredibly unfortunate. When Mrs. Connell, Houston’s premiere socialite, hires Emma to remodel her guesthouse, Emma has every reason to believe her run with bad luck is over. It is through Mrs. Connell that Emma soars to the top of the food chain, and meets Blake Rochester, the man who forever changes her life.

By Jonathan M. Freiman, Ph.D.

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Through the analysis of seven classic thrillers from the 1930s through the 1950s, this book reveals various monsters lurking in the workplace. Some films serve as more logical launching points than others, but all make entertaining introductions to each chapter.

By Kristen Ashley

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Ally Nightingale has been a Rock Chick for years, one of a posse of attractive, intelligent young women who lead exciting lives and get romantically involved with gorgeous alpha males collectively labeled “The Hot Bunch”.

By Blair Evans

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After hearing an argument that “Pornography will be the only non-commercialised art form” left, without the “pretentious claims” that are made by the music industry, Cameron sets off on a journey of transformation and self-discovery.

By Lesli Catsouras

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Forever Exposed is an excruciating book—and I mean that as a compliment. It tells the story of the anguish that Lesli and Christos go through following the sudden loss of their daughter, Nikki, who crashed her father’s Porsche (she stole the keys) into a tollbooth on the highway.

By Heather Abraham

By Carey Heywood

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Sarah Miller hasn’t been home in seven years. She thought she could stay away forever. If it wasn’t for her big brother’s wedding, that is. Part of her even feels silly for staying away this long. It’s not like anyone even knew what happened. Well, except for him.

By Paul McCormack

By Lauren Blakely

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An adorable, funny, light piece of cotton-candy fluff. It is not remotely pretentious, and will not try to educate you or enlighten you or make you think ponderous thoughts about life, the universe, and everything – but it will very likely make you laugh, and charm you with the sweetness of a fresh romance.

By Lara McLaughlin

By Kristen Proby

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Rock With Me is a romance involving Leo Nash, front man for the rock band Nash, and Samantha Williams, sister of a famous actor, who is tired of dating celebrities and has promised herself never to do it again.

By Nichole Chase

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Samantha Rousseau is used to getting her hands dirty. Working toward a master’s degree in wildlife biology while helping take care of her sick father, she has no time for celebrity gossip, designer clothes, or lazy vacations.

By Michael Dadich

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The Silver Sphere takes place on the world of Azimuth, a planet with elements of both fantasy (mythical creatures, swords and sorcery, cloaks and horses and all) and science fiction (space ships and star darts).

By Z Altug and Tracy Olgeaty Gensler

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Orion Spence is the son of the Captain and Science Officer of the time- traveling Taloshian starship HMS Exploricus. The Taloshians are a race of powerful and highly technically-sophisticated beings (of multiple forms – some are plants, some cats, some bats, spiders, humans, or other species) who inhabit the island of Patalosh on the planet Lumina in another universe.

By Brinn Colenda

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The Cochabama Conspiracy takes place in La Paz, Bolivia, where Lt. Col. Tom Callahan, Air Force flying ace, has been sent in order to undo some political and diplomatic damage done by his predecessor in the Military Group.

By Blaine Readler

By Red Tash

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Fifteen-year-old Debra is trapped in a small town, doomed to spend her life taking care of her beautiful drug-addicted sister Gennifer and their alcoholic mother, when all she really wants to do is skate in a roller derby. But things are never what they seem—they’re worse.

By Fidelis O. Mkparu

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This endearing first novel opens in 2010 but quickly segues into an extended flashback to 1977 and the college years of Joseph, a 17-year-old foreign student who has left his country to attend a small university in North Carolina.

By Robin Lamont

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Wright for America is a political farce about a far-right-wing radio talk show host, whose motto is “hate sells,” and an actress who seeks revenge after an attack on her gay twin brother, which she believes was inspired by his vicious political commentary.

By Colleen Ruttan

By Barbara de la Cuesta

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Carl, Willi and Blanche, in the process of traveling across Mexico (having left the US to protest oppressive wars and cruelty on the part of our government), are stranded in a small village by a car breakdown.

By Wendy D. Walter

By Barbara de la Cuesta

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Two dysfunctional families try to cope with work, bills, divorce, and teenage maladjustment. But the book is not as depressing as that summary might suggest, largely because of the interesting characters that people it, especially Hestor, the quirky narrator.

By Bella Andre

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In LET ME BE THE ONE, the brand-new book in Bella Andre’s New York Times and USA Today bestselling series about the Sullivan family, an unexpected friends-to-lovers romance might not only turn out to be so much hotter than anything bad boy pro baseball player Ryan Sullivan has ever known…but much, much sweeter, too.

By Heather McCorkle

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Eren Donovan is a sixteen-year old girl who, after the death of her parents, moves to Spruce Knoll to live with her aunt. Here she discovers a secretive community of people with special powers and realizes that she too has channeling powers that have been hidden from her until now.

By Arlene Matthews

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Torre Messina is a gifted 12 year old who earns a scholarship to a prestigious private school. But the shy and brilliant Torre does not fit in with his new classmates, who, aside from being older, are mostly children of economic privilege. He’s not the only one.

By Amber L. Carter

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Holiday Chick, by Amber Carter, begins in the first person perspective of Aden, a 21-year old Bible camp counselor. After her father is in a life threatening accident, Aden is compelled to return to the sleepy Minnesota town of Holden, where her family now calls home.

By Bella Andre

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With THE LOOK OF LOVE bestselling author Bella Andre introduces you to a fun and emotional contemporary romance series about the Sullivan family. Because when a Sullivan bad boy falls…he falls hard. And it’s forever.

By Laura Hart

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Fourteen year-old Alice Towers has awful dreams…nightmares really, where she is unable to walk. We are tossed into this scenario, which quickly moves from to unstable to surreal. It seems that Alice is trapped in The Realm of Dreams, where human dreams become reality.

By Patrick M. Garry

By Vicky Savage

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Jaden Beckett is a 17 year-old girl whose mom has died. She lives with her dad and older brother, Drew, in Madison, WI. She’s 5’10, a Tae Kwon Do champion and trying her best to deal with her dad’s detachment after his spouse’s passing.

By Jamie McGuire

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Abby Abernathy (aka Pigeon) from Wichita, Kansas, is a freshman at Eastern University, trying to escape a disturbing past; there, she meets campus stud extraordinaire Travis “Mad Dog” Maddox, who sidelines as a prizefighter, sports a buzz cut and a wealth of tattoos, has a lifetime supply of condoms in his apartment and a string of “clueless bimbos” lined up to try them out.

By Marika Blossfeldt

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Visually stunning and packed full of mouthwatering recipes, Essential Nourishment puts the emphasis on an appreciation for the sensual pleasures of natural foods with a sensible approach to nourishment.

By Barbara Haines Howett

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Barbara Haines Howett’s eleven interlinked stories take us into the lives of ex-pat women in Indonesia in the early 1970s. There are two worlds to explore here: colorful Indonesia and the claustrophobic world of corporate wives–before feminism made its mark.

By Meredith Allard

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An alluring paranormal romance about Sarah Alexander, who has relocated from Los Angeles to Salem, Massachusetts, where she discovers James Wentworth and the secrets from both his and her past that will free her from the visions that plague her sleep.

By Evan Katy

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Samantha Rialto, a recently divorced, defensively snarky middle school music teacher, has taken up surveillance photography as a way to fill the gaps in her educator’s salary. That is until a particularly cold week in January when Sam finds herself entangled in a mystery involving dead people, copious amounts of cash and a nutty Tai Chi enthusiast.

By Richard Bard

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When terminally ill combat pilot Jake Bronson emerges from an MRI with extraordinary cognitive powers, everyone wants a piece of his talent–including Battista, one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists.

By Nancy C. Johnson

By Aaron G. Niz

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Josh Miller is a high school sophomore and tennis-pro wannabe. When his physics teacher presents the theory of alternate universes Josh wonders if it’s possible that there’s another world in which he’s not such a nerd.

By Jane Dawkins

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More Letters From Pemberley is a continuation of Jane Dawkin’s first Letters novel. We again find Elizabeth Darcy, at her writing desk. Extending from 1814 to 1819, Elizabeth’s letters are no longer that of a homesick young woman finding solace with her younger sister.

By Paul Martin Midden

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A fanatical right-wing religious group is threatening to destroy the United States from within and set up a religious oligarchy. It is up to a junior moderate Republican Senator, Jake Telemark, and the daughter of a famous politician, Dora Hathaway, to take down this group before their plans can come to fruition.

By Andrew Kent

By Nancy Toomey

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From the Abuela’s Window is a story of ordinary people doing what they can to help each other and in small ways undermine a brutal system—it is about staying human when faced with inhumanity all around.

By Frank S. Joseph

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To Love Mercy takes place in racially segregated Chicago, circa 1948. Most African-Americans live in poverty, are denied upward mobility, and must deal with the prejudice of white people. The book is filled with authentic detail and prominent figures of the period and nothing is white-washed.

By Jane Dawkins

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When Olivia, a 57 year-old Brit, is widowed by her American husband, she decides to move from New York to Key West, Florida. She considers herself content, until—on a visit to New York—a dashing attorney and a fellow Brit 15 years her junior falls head over heels in love with her.

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